For me, this speech is from a uniquely female perspective, [View all]

a beautiful, and eloquent expression from the heart of a smart, powerful, and capable woman who profoundly feels and understands the importance of recognizing the rights and dignity of all human beings and the issues related to fundamental human rights. It goes so much deeper than only lgbt issues.

I believe that these are important ideas that I tried my best to help my children to understand, and these ideas are what I hope become a reality that my grandbabies will take for granted.

The full transcript is here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/hillary-clinton-gay-rights-speech-geneva_n_1132392.html?ref=mostpopular

"The third, and perhaps most challenging, issue arises when people cite religious or cultural values as a reason to violate or not to protect the human rights of LGBT citizens. This is not unlike the justification offered for violent practices towards women like honor killings, widow burning, or female genital mutilation. Some people still defend those practices as part of a cultural tradition. But violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal. Likewise with slavery, what was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights."